rĕ-sŭpīno, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or turn back (rare; not in Cic.).
I Lit.: puer ad me accurrit, Pone apprehendit pallio, resupinat, Ter. Phorm. 863: assurgentem ibi regem umbone resupinat, Liv. 4, 19: hominem, Cels. 7, 16: nares planā manu, to bend back , Quint. 11, 3, 80: colla (turtures, cum bibunt), Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; cf.: caput (aves bibentes), id. 10, 46, 63, § 129: valvas, to beat in , break down , Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51: resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, i. e. prostrate from drunkenness, Juv. 8, 176 et saep.— In mal. part., to stretch out : aviam amici, Juv. 3, 112.— Pass. in mid. force: leones resupinari, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162.—
II Trop.: rem, to overthrow , ruin , destroy , Att. ap. Non. 165, 3: quid tantopere te resupinet? makes proud , puffs up , Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 1.